We attach maximum importance to protecting your data and safeguarding your privacy. Therefore, we provide information below regarding collection and use of personal data while using our website.

Anonymous data collection You can visit our websites without having to provide any personal details. We do not save any personal data in this connection. In order to improve our offer, we evaluate only the statistical data, which does not allow any inference of your personal details.

Collection and processing while using the contact form When using the contact form, we collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you. We use your email address only for processing your request. Your data is deleted subsequently if you do not approve of the further processing and use.

Collection, processing and use of personal data We collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you. Your personal data is processed and used for completing and processing your order and also for processing your requests. After the contract is processed completely, all the personal data is first saved taking into account the retention periods under fiscal and commercial law and then deleted after the expiry of the deadline, if you have not approved of the further processing and use.

We additionally refer to the following: We use the Käufersiegel rating system. According to your order, we would like to request you to rate your purchase from us and comment on it. For this purpose, we will contact you within the scope of the order processing, whereby we will make use of the technical system of the supplier of the Käufersiegel rating tool, Händlerbund Management AG, Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig, within the scope of order data processing. Your email address will only be used for this purpose here and not for any further use in particular and will also not be forwarded to other third parties. The personal data saved in this context in the technical system of the Käufersiegel rating system is deleted 3 months after the product delivery recorded for the rating.

Using an email address for sending a direct advertising Provided that you have not disagreed, we shall use your email address, which we received as part of selling an item or service, for the electronic transmission of advertising for your own goods and services, which are similar to those that you have already purchased from us. You may object to the use of your email address at any time by sending us a message. You'll find the contact details for exercising your objection in our imprint. You can also use the link provided in the advertising email. This shall not result in any costs other than transmission costs in accordance with your basic rates.

Forwarding personal data Your data is not forwarded to third parties without your explicit consent. Only our service partners, which we require for handling the contractual relationship, are excluded from this. In these cases, we strictly adhere to the specifications of the Federal Data Protection Act. The scope of the data transfer is restricted to a minimum.

Cookies Our websites use so-called cookies at several places. Cookies are small text files, which are stored on your computer and which your browser saves. They help to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and reliable. In addition, cookies allow our systems to identify your browser and offer you services. Cookies do no contain any personal data.

Using the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc. The supplier uses the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc. (“Google”) on the website. The supplier can use this function to specifically approach the visitors of this website with advertisements by running personalised, interest-related advertisements for visitors of the supplier’s website if they visit other websites in the Google Display network. Google uses so-called cookies for analysing the website usage, which forms the basis for developing the interest-related advertisements. For this, Google saves a small file with a numerical sequence on the browsers of the website’s visitors. This number is used to record the visits to the website as well as anonymised data about the website usage. Personal data of the website’s visitors is not saved. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display network, pop-ups are displayed to you, which are likely to take into account previously accessed product and information fields. You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link given below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there:https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third=party suppliers by calling the deactivating site of the network advertising initiative on http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the additional information for Opt-Out mentioned there. Additional information regarding Google Remarketing as well as the data protection declaration of Google can be viewed on:http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Using the Remarketing function of ExactTarget We use the Remarketing function of the email service provider ExactTarget, Inc. 20 North Meridian Street Suite 200 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 USA (“ExactTarget”). Cookies are used if you have agreed to receiving our newsletter and visit our site via a newsletter. This allows us to understand the effectiveness of our newsletter, e.g. whether you have opened an email or which part of the newsletter was especially interesting.

In addition, ExactTarget uses so-called Web Beacons in the majority of the emails sent by ExactTarget. Web Beacons (also known as ClearGIFs or web bugs) are small graphics (approx. 1x1 GIF files), which are used on websites or in HTML emails, among other things, to grant the website users a better understanding of the interaction of the users with the website. Web beacons have the same function as the cookies, but the user cannot see them. Web Beacons can be used to particularly obtain information whether the email was obtained and whether the system of the user is capable of receiving HTML emails. No personal data is obtained using the Web Beacon.

If you do not wish to receive any email notifications with Web Beacons, you can also receive your emails in text format (not in the HTML format) optionally. Web Beacons are used together with cookies. You can thus prevent the use of Web Beacons by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software. However, we would like to bring to your attention that you may not be able to use all functions of our website entirely in this case.

The provider uses the “Custom Audiences” remarketing function of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook") on the website. The provider can use this function to provide targeted advertising. This provides visitors to the website with personalised Facebook ads which are tailored to their interests when they visit the Facebook social networking site. To run the function, the Facebook remarketing tab is implemented on the provider’s website.

This tag establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server when visiting the website. In doing so, the Facebook server is informed about which of our web pages you have visited. Facebook assign this information to your personal Facebook user account. Further information on the data collected and used by Facebook, your rights and privacy can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. If you do not want Facebook to directly assign the information collected to your Facebook user account, you can disable the “Custom Audiences” remarketing function here. You must be logged in to Facebook to do this.

Using Google Adwords conversion tracking We use the online advertising service “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking within the scope of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). If you click an advertisement run by Google, a cookie for the conversion tracking is saved on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and thus do not help in personal identification. If you visit specific webpages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can identify that you have clicked on the advertisement and were forwarded to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no option that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information that is obtained with the help of the conversion cookie helps to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided on conversion tracking. Here, the customers find out about the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were forwarded to a site provided with a conversion tracking tag. You however do not receive any information which can be used to identify users personally. If you do not wish to take part in the tracking, you can disagree to this use by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software (deactivation option). You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics. For additional information as well as for the data protection declaration, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Whenever you display one of our Internet pages that hosts a Facebook plug-in you will be linked to the Facebook servers, a message is sent to your browser, and the plug-in is run on the Internet page. This is telling the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. Assuming you are logged on to your Facebook member account while running the Facebook plug-in, Facebook will allocate the information to your personal Facebook user account. Further information collected and allocated by Facebook is the use of plug-in functions (like clicking on the Like button or posting a comment). To prevent this data collection and allocation, you must log off your Facebook user account before running the plug-in.

If you do not wish Facebook to collect and directly allocate the above information to your Facebook profile, you will either have to log off from Facebook before visiting our site or run a "Facebook blocker" which stops the Facebook plug-ins from running on our pages.

To learn more about the collection and use of your personal data by Facebook as well as about your rights and what options you have to protect your privacy, please read Facebook's Privacy Policy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Using Twitter plugins The functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our website. Twitter is a social media portal of the company Twitter Inc.,795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA). We use Twitter plugins. If you invoke a corresponding website that has such a plugin, the data is exchanged with the Twitter servers located in the USA. Even in case of interactions, which are possible with various Twitter plugins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Twitter and stored there. Moreover, if you are a member of Twitter, and if your are logged in on Twitter during the period in which you use the plugin, the information collected about your website visit is linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. If you do not wish that Twitter links and combines the information with the data of your Twitter account, you must log out from Twitter before visiting our website. Log on to https://twitter.com/privacy for more information on the collection and use of data through Twitter.

Using the XING Share-Button On this webpage, the “XING Share-Button” is used. When this webpage is invoked, a link to the servers of XING AG (“XING”) is established for a brief period through your browser; with the help of these servers, “XING Share-Button” functions (especially the calculation/display of the counter value) are carried out. XING does not save your personal data if this webpage is invoked. XING does not save any IP-addresses, in particular. Even your usage behaviour is not analysed by using cookies in connection with the “XING Share-Button”. The latest data protection information about “XING Share-Button” and additional information can be retrieved on this webpage:https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

Using YouTube

The provider uses the function for embedding YouTube videos on its website. This function is provided by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 USA (“YouTube”). YouTube is an associated company of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). YouTube videos are displayed in an iFrame using this function. This requires the option “Advanced privacy mode” to be enabled. If you view a video, information about it stored by YouTube. Further information on the data collected and used by YouTube and Google, your rights and privacy can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy (https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/).

Using Instagram plug-ins

These websites use the plug-in from online service provider Instagram, which is provided by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram").

If you access pages on our website that contain this plug-in, this will generate a connection to the Instagram server and indicate the plug-in on the site by means of message in your browser. Information such as your IP address and which websites you have visited is transmitted to the Instagram server.

If you are logged into Instagram, Instagram will assign this information to your personal user account. When using the plug-in functions (e.g. clicking the “Instagram” button”) this information is also assigned to your Instagram account, which you can only prevent by logging out prior to using the plug-in.

If you do not want Instagram to directly add the information collected to your Instagram account, you must either log out of Instagram prior to visiting our site or use an add-on or the script blocker “NoScript” (noscript.net) to block the Instagram plug-in loading on our websites.

Information, correction, blocking and deletion of data At all times, you have the right to free information about your saved data as well as the right to correction, deletion and blocking of the same. Please contact us if required. You will find the contact details in our Legal Notice.